RichardG Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 I'm 3 missions into Yom Kippur flying the A-4, its been bone rattling. We're hitting our targets, but losing 3 planes and pilots per mission. I've come home with 2 damaged birds. The pilot roster is getting thin, and I'm not sure how many planes are left in the squadron. After hitting primary target, my wingmen like to stick around and play in SAM country, even when I order them back into formation or RTB. They're paying for it. I know Israel lost alot of planes in this war in the Sinai front, I didn't know it was so bad up north in Syria. I'm gonna look up A-4 losses. Quote
+Dave Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 I was on mission 10 in my A-4 and got blasted out of the sky. At the time my unt was at 65%. Its been tough. Quote
+MigBuster Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 (edited) about 53 A-4s lost in 1973 - 25 over Syria according to Ospreys Israeli A-4s in combat That is by far the hardest campaign - but wouldnt be much fun if it was all as easy as 1982 Advice is - your wingmen are pants in many ways - I take as few as possible with me - and run recons alone! Edited February 3, 2010 by MigBuster Quote
Viper6 Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Hey Richard Welcome to the club! If you can make it to 15 missions then you are doing VERY well Indeed Quote
RichardG Posted February 3, 2010 Author Posted February 3, 2010 (edited) So your saying you run recon missions with no pants? Wow, 53 A-4 losses. The info I found said Israel lost 99 planes in the whole war, so more than half were A-4 losses. List of losses on both sides: http://webspace.webring.com/people/qs/skythe/losses.htm Edited February 3, 2010 by RichardG Quote
Viper6 Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Flying a A-4 in Yom Kippur does not equate to long life Quote
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ShrikeHawk Posted February 4, 2010 Posted February 4, 2010 It could be worse. You could be getting "waxed" in Brazil... Quote
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